Lang Rabbie
@langrabbie.bsky.social
Not an architect but prone to concrete fetishism Palimpsestian Scot with a Nottinghamshire childhood now residing in London SW2's debatable lands C19th Liberalism tempered by teenage Marxism Today habit
Sad to see the news of iconic Notts company Raleigh going into administration. Originally founded in Nottingham in 1885, many generations of cyclists grew up riding Raleigh models including the Chopper, Grifter and Burner. #nottingham #notts #raleigh #bicycle #bikes
One day late, but still: #scifi #comics & #architecture: The story of an empty house in Wally Woods' 1953 adaptation of Ray Bradbury's 'There Will Come Soft Rains' (1950)
Reactor Magazine@reactorsff.bsky.social · 2d ago"Today is August 4, 2026". Happy "There Will Come Soft Rains" Day!
Did no one in the main stream media think to get contact details for the "Liberal Democrat with a laptop" in each of the borough counting centres across Greater Manchester? Or have the GM LibDem stats nerds gone on a cheap holiday to Albania together?
Josh Halliday@joshhalliday.bsky.social · 5d agoLabour's Bev Craig to be announced as Greater Manchester mayor in next 15 mins or so.
Catching 74 distracted drivers in six hours is good, but what would be better is redesigning the street so drivers are forced to pay attention.
A N.J. cop disguised himself as a shrub — and helped catch 74 distracted drivers in one day
The Dunellen department said the "shrub" was busy during the six-hour enforcement operation.
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Q for Nottingham(shire) folk: Does anyone know if there is a catalogue of programmes or even just a list for the "City and County in Concert" events promoted jointly by City of Nottingham and Notts. County Council in the 1980s and 1990s, mostly (but not entirely) at the new Royal Concert Hall?
Fascinating interval feature talk with composer Graham Fitkin on Radio 3 during tonight's Prom. (I thought that @grahamfitkin.bsky.social must have a portrait in the attic then realised that this photo library headshot is from 2007!)
BBC Radio 3 Now Playing Bot (Unofficial)@bbcradio3bot.bsky.social · last wk.BBC Radio 3 BBC Proms 2026 Now Playing Graham Fitkin, Graham Fitkin & Ruth Wall Uist
every paparazzi photo of disgraced british royals
Sardonicus@sardonicus.eu · 8mo ago'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.' Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
If I was an agency wanting to be disbanded, I would choose the moment just after a new man of the ppl PM from the NW arrived - with a defining mission to rebalance the country and make agencies accountable - to pull £ from the world renowned telescope visited by generation upon generation of NW kids
Remember the “108 ancient woodlands” HS2 was going to destroy? The actual ancient woodland loss for HS2 in full would be 39 hectares. This one ancient woodland that Reform wants to destroy is *40 hectares* This quarry will produce mostly crushed aggregate. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Kent council accused of 'ecocide' over Oaken Wood quarry plan
Campaigners are "horrified" by the plans but the council says "no decision has been made".
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I still think that the word setting in John Adams' 'Harmonium', including Emily Dickinson's 'Because I could not stop for Death' is some of the finest choral writing of the last generation. #bbcproms
bloomberg has a fun article today arguing that the Cybertruck is the biggest flop in automotive history. it includes this glorious graph.
A £10,000 bar tab??? The only pub (as distinct from a ridiculous EuroTrash x GulfTrash x FootballersWives nightclub) I have ever heard of where such a bill was possible was Shane MacGowan's wake outside Nenagh where the mourners reputedly drank the pub dry. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Was Keir Starmer’s leaving party the boozy birth of a new Labour force?
A £10,000 bar tab was drunk, there was a ‘lot of anger’, and now ex-ministers are thinking how to cooperate in future
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Of course he would. He gets to make his cost savings numbers and customers get an even worse service but that doesn't matter as BG won't be fined enough or soon enough. And so the service landscape keeps getting worse.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago‘Customers prefer AI chatbots to humans’ says British Gas boss as 1,300 call centre staff axed
For any older Lambethan readers trying to place this fire, the Tesco Express branch is in the former Warrior pub/Junction bar.
Brixton Buzz@brixtonbuzz.bsky.social · 2w ago
Reform UK donor and Farage ally George Cottrell carried a fake Swiss passport under the name ‘Oscar Drewitt’. Cottrell was hired under the name by the future Reform treasurer Mehrtash A’zami. A’zami later vetted Cottrell’s mother's donations to Reform, now the subject of a police investigation
‘Posh George’, Two Passports, and a Fraudulent Identity: Convicted Fraudster and Nigel Farage Funder's Connections to Reform UK’s Murky Financial Structures
Why did Reform UK change from being a privately-owned company to a non-profit company limited by guarantee in 2025? Nafeez Ahmed investigates a fraudulent identity used by George Cottrell – and how hi...
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Croydon's first peregrine falcons fledge from landmark building insidecroydon.com/2026/07/23/c... #Croydon #Peregrines @rspbengland.bsky.social @nrgsrhc.bsky.social @c20society.bsky.social
Croydon’s first peregrine falcons fledge from landmark building
For the first time, peregrine falcons have successfully bred in Croydon, on a ledge of No1 Croydon, the landmark building overlooking the tram lines and bus station at East Croydon, one of the coun…
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Liberal England: In the Britain of 1940 cars were deadlier than German bombs "During June the whole forces of the German Empire succeeded in killing exactly 100 fewer people in this island with bombs than were killed by motorists by accidents." liberalengland.blogspot.com/2026/07/in-b...
Corruption reaches far and wide with this regime. 🤬
Thames Water, the poster child of predatory capitalism announces hosepipe ban. TW loses 200bn litres annually to leaks. Dumps tons of sewage in rivers. Paid dividends, neglected investment. No new reservoirs since 1989. Massive hikes in customer bills. Numerous criminal convictions.
Thames Water announces hosepipe ban for 10.1m customers
The water company said the three heatwaves contributed to the ban.
bbc.co.uk
Musk is a man. Therefore all men are Musk. How can the richest man on earth make such an elementary logical blunder even putting aside the question of scholarship? To add to Grok, the Nazis did initially appeal to workers’ rights, but in practice it meant nothing.
65yearcitizen@usa24freedom.bsky.social · 2w agoTake 20 seconds , read the whole thing.
Actually, this might be even more of a favourite, though it is harder to track down...
Lang Rabbie@langrabbie.bsky.social · 2w agoWithout saying your age, what's your favourite movie that came out when you were 18?
Without saying your age, what's your favourite movie that came out when you were 18?
Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵@threadinburgh.scot · 2w agoWithout saying your age, what's your favourite movie that came out when you were 18?
IT Crowd: Moss Shows Jen The Internet
Alt: IT Crowd: Moss Shows Jen The Internet
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James Ball@jamesrball.com · 2w agoLisa Nandy's job has been expanded! She's now in charge of the internet too! Nandy has had two years overseeing Ofcom's regulation of TV. Now she is overseeing social media and online safety, too. Gosh.
Can’t believe Lisa Nandy is still not the culture secretary.
I can't work out if this is intended as a punishment to Lisa Nandy, who clearly hates the job; or a punishment to the entire UK culture sector, which is suffering as a result of that. Maybe both?
